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Only eight months ago, gold sold at $200 per oz. Last week the price of the mystical metal, which historically rises on uncertainty and lack of faith in paper money, shot up $12.45 in three days and broke the $300-per-oz. barrier. It reached a record $303.85 before settling back slightly at week's end to just below $299. But the decline could well be temporary. Says Hans-Joachim Schreiber, the chief trader of West Germany's Dresdner Bank, which has been the biggest buyer at recent U.S. Treasury gold auctions: "There are no forces working...
...Here come two on the far ridge," he says. Sure enough, two figures can be seen burrowing under a fence, then twisting through the barbed wire. By the time they clear the barrier, Thomas and his men are waiting for them-with bread, beer cans of hot tea and, after questioning, swift and sure repatriation to China...
...challenge. If Communist China were to take military action against us, many people there would oppose it, and it would lead to an antiwar movement and perhaps even a civil war. That possibility will prevent the Communists from taking military action against Taiwan. You must [also] consider the natural barrier between us, the Taiwan Strait, which is 100 miles wide at its narrowest point and 120 miles at the broadest. [The Communists] would have to be prepared to sacrifice 1 million, 2 million or even 3 million people in an invasion that would also involve a great logistical problem...
...become something of a heroine to the white feminist movement, which relishes such sardonic Wallace lines as, "Could you imagine Ché Guevara with breasts? Mao with a vagina?" She has appeared on the cover of Ms. with Editor Gloria Steinem's endorsement that "she crosses the sex/race barrier to make every reader understand the political and intimate truths of growing up black and female in America." Some blacks have also joined the acclaim. Novelist Ishmael Reed (Mumbo-Jumbo, Free-Lance Pallbearers), for example, says that Wallace has brought "cool clarity to a subject about which so much frenetic...
Thirsty to hear French but a bit rusty, audiences tend to turn up at the theater sensibly bearing the original text or Rich ard Wilbur's fine translation. To help with the language barrier, the Comédie offers headsets and simultaneous translations into serviceable though clubfooted English prose. The effect is a bit like watching a movie under water. Anyone who possibly can should read the play in French beforehand, then sit back and let the long lines roll down the centuries and over...